Postal-card printing and banding machine.



No. 812,180. PATENTED FEB. 13, 1906. W. H. BUNCH.

POSTAL CARD PRINTING AND BANDING MACHINE. APPLIcATIoN FILED AUG. 5, 1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. BUNGE, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WOOLWORTH & GRAHAM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A FIRM.

POSTAL-CARD PRINTING AND SANDING MACHINE.

Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1906.

Application filed August 5, 1 897. Serial No. 647,150.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. BUNOE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Postal-Card Printing and Banding Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

My invention relates to the class of machines for printing, forming to the required size, and banding into packages of the required number postal cards or like articles; and the object of my invention is to construct a machine of this class that shallbe extremely simple as to construction and few in number of parts as compared with machines of the prior art.

To this end my invention consists in the combination of the mechanism making up the machine as a whole or in part, as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a printing-press of the Kidder type with my improved machine attached to and connected therewith. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of a portion of my improved machine, showing the mechanism appurtenant to a single pocket, with parts broken away to show construction. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view in side elevation, illustrating the mechanism appurtenant to a single pocket. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a postal-card machine, showing a banding device appurtenant to each pocket.

A roll of material of any desired width is fed into the press and impressions for any desired number of cards made widthwise of the roll at a single operation, the sheet from the roll being then cut to proper dimensions with reference to such impressions to properly form a card, the severed cards being delivered by well-known mechanism to pockets hereinafter described. The machine which I have chosen to illustrate herein for accomplishing this purpose is of the well-known Kidder type, and as this forms no part of the inven tion a detailed description has been omitted.

I contemplate the use of any number of pockets arranged side by side and into which the cards are delivered from the printingpress; but to simplify the description and make more clear the operation I have limited the showing to two pockets only (see Fig. 4) and the mechanism appurtenant thereto. It is obvious that when a greater number of pockets are employed, as contemplated by the invention, that they Will bear the same relative arrangement as shown in Fig. 4.

In the accompanying drawings the letter a denotes the table of my improved bandingmachine, on which is located a pocket 1), formed by the side walls I) A slit 1) is formed in the bottom of the pocket in which a finger a, secured to the upper end of the lever c,has a reciprocating movement, the lever being pivoted to alever 0 secured to the rock-shaft and operated by means of a cam 0 The rockshaft is operated by a cam 0 through the lever 0*, to draw the lever c downward to clear the cards in the pocket I) in its backward movement. The cards are delivered into the pocket I) from the printing-press, each card resting on the flat side and With the longer edge of the card crosswise of the pocket, the edge of the pile lying in advance of and preferably close to the finger c. Thecam c is properly timed to move the finger 0 forward when the proper number of cards have been deposited in the pile, the pile being moved forward onto the portion a of the table a. A roll of tape d, preferably of paper, is supported in proper position above the table, the end of the tape projecting through the guide d and in position to be grasped by the pincers 6. These pincers consist of two members each pivoted in a sliding block 6, a spring a tending normally to force the upper end of the pincers apart. A block e is pivoted to the slide a and is operatively connected by a lever e with the cam 6 which causes the slide to be reciprocated in a vertical plane. As the lever e commences its upward movement the block 6 swings a short distanceand through the medium of cam-surfaces on the block and pincers allows the upper end of the latter to be forced open by the spring 6 The continued movement of the slide brings the pincers upward into position to engage the end of the tape (Z. As the rod 6 commences its downward movement the block a is swung downward a short distance, causing the pincers to grasp the tape, and the slide 6 is then moved downward under the continued movement ofthe lever e pulling a length of tape from the roll downward in position to lie in front of the package ofcards in theipocketatl The cam e is timed to cause a movement ofthe lever e at a time While the cards are being deposited in the pocket and before the fingerc is operatedto push the package out of the pocket. For a more complete description of this banding device'reference'may be had'to United States patent to Bunce et al., dated June 4,1889, No. 404,773.

The blades of the shears aretpivot'ed in: position so that the pincers e in their reci rocatingmovement will pass. through t ea opening'between the blades-whenLopen. The blades are held normally in aclosedposition by means of a spring secured to the pivot-and pressing on the outer edgeof theushank of: each blade. A disk 7" is providedwith pins; located on opposite sides of its-center'th'at as the disk is rotated act on the shankof-opposite blades simultaneously to open the latter.- A rod. f is operatively connectedwith the" disk at one end and a lever f at the opposite end. This lever f is-pivoted: between its endsto the frame of the machine, and its lower end is locatedin proper'position to be operated by a cam securedto the cam-shaft f. A spring is connected to the rod. to hold it'normallyin position to keep the b' ades open. The cam for operating. the lever f is timed to cause the rod to be moved backward against the force of the spring to allowthei blades of the shears to close just after: the: pincershave completed their downward movement and at the same timeorimmediately after as that at which the edge ofrthev pack of cards encounters the tape.

The pack of cards is moved out of the pocket 1) directly to the bander, which wrapsthis tape about the upperandunder surfaces ofthe pack, leaving an end projecting. from. the under surface beyond that edge-toward the fingerc and of a'length sufficient to be Wrappedabout said edge and-oven onto the upper surface of the pack. This projecting end of the tape iswrapped around the edge' and laid on the uppersurface of'the pack, encountering in its movement to. this position proper mechanism for daubingthe inner. surface of the tapewith mucilage or like adhesive'material to cause it to adhere to that portion ofthe tape already lyingon top of the pack. The mechanism for accomplishing. the completion of this banding and for daub+ ing the-tape with an adhesive materialmay be-of'any old. and well-known construction.

After. the banding has-been completed *the pack is moved in a directlinealong the table. by contact of' the next succeeding. pack as it isimoved from the pocket I).

Any desired mechanism forzregistering. the number of packsas they are moved from the banding device may be employed, ifrdesired.

From the above description itwillbe seen. that thedevice embodies mechanism in which a banding. device is appurtenant to each pocket into. Which the cards are delivered --from-theprinting device and in which the packs of'card'saremovedi fror-n each acket; in direct line to a banding device and from thence in a direct'line away from said banding device, suchconstruc-tionrequiring but a single device for moving the piles of cards to commence and complete the operation. In prior'devices of this class a single banding device hasbeen employed in connectionwith a 'number of piles of cards, and this necessitates lar pathiandlthe employment 'of a-number-of devicesifonadvancing a .pack along the machine. Byz-"m'yi improved 1 machine the emfrom the banding'device, and by providing a banding. device appurtenant to eachipocket the mechanismis simplified and the. capacity of the machine greatly increased.

ILclaim as my inve11ti'oningand banding postal cards and like: artiand'deliverin'g them in direct lines: in'pilesof tacles for receiving the cards, means for moving the piles fromthe receptacles :in diand. means .for' banding the: package.

2. In combinationina machine for print:

receptacles, means-for movingthe piles from vices, and also in like lines from the'banders, and the banding devices.

side andin' parallelism and delivering'them toj asbanding device, means for handing the of theipiles from the banders:

4'. In combination in a machine fori'print ing and handing postalfcards and'like arti+ cles, means. for: printing: the cards side by side and delivering them in piles composed the moving of thecards in a-curveder-angw loymentiof a: single" deviceonly is required or: each pocket to move the cards to and in connectionwith the: arrangement of the banding devices with respect to the pockets 1; Inicombin ation in a machinefor=printcles, means for. printing. the cards in multiple the desired I number to receptacles, the receprect and'parallellines to ban'dingdevicesand inposition to. be. moved forward from the banding. devices by contact of theznextl suc-i ceeding pile therewith in each parallel line;-

ing; and banding postal cards" and like arti cles, means forzprinting the cards in multipleand iniparallelllines and delivering them in piles of the desired numb'er'to receptacles, the

the receptacles in adirect line to banding. de'

' 3; In. combination in an apparatusfori printing and'banding postal cards and like articles, means forprinting the cards side by indirect lines in piles of the desired number: to receptacles-the receptacles for receiving the: cards, meansfor moving each oftheL-parallel piles from thereceptacles in a direct: line packages, said means for moving the piles from the'receptacles in a direct line-to thebanding. devices also effecting the discharge of the desired; number: to receptacles ar-- ranged sideby side; the-receptacles, mean'sfor: moving the piles" directly. from the re'cep tacles to banders appurtenant thereto, and the banding devices, the several packages being moved in the same horizontal plane.

5. In combination in an apparatus for printing and banding postal cards and like articles, means for printing the cards side by side and delivering them in parallel piles composed of the desired number to receptacles for said piles, the receptacles, means for moving the cards in parallel lines and in the same horizontal plane and directly from said piles to banding devices appurtenant to each receptacle, and means for banding the packages, said means for moving the cards from the piles to the banding devices being adapted to eject the banded packages from the banders.

6. In combination in an apparatus for printing and banding postal cards and like articles, means for printing the cards in multiple side by side and for delivering them to receptacles, the receptacles arranged side by side, means for moving the piles in parallel lines from said receptacles to banding de- Vices, a banding device arranged appurtenant to each receptacle for operating upon the pile of cards delivered therefrom, and means for moving the piles in parallel lines from thebanders, each pile being moved to the banders and away therefrom by the contact of the next preceding pile.

WILLIAM H. BUN CE.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR B. JENKINS, ERMA P. CoFFRIN. 

